Pleurolobus gangeticus (L.) J.St.-Hil. ex H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta> Magnoliopsida> Fabaceae> Pleurolobus > P. gangeticus

Description: Erect undershrubs, up to 1.2 m tall; stem angled, hairy when young, glabrescent on ageing. Leaves: 1-foliolate, 5-10 x 1-5 cm, ovate to elliptic, base rounded, apex acute, glabrescent above, densely appressed hairy below, often blotched with grey; petiole to 2.5 cm long; stipules to 8 mm long; linear-lanceolate. Flowers: white, fascicled in terminal and axillary, 15-25 cm long racemes; pedicels 3-4 mm long; bracts subulate. Calyx: campanulate; lobes 1.5-2 mm long, triangular, tomentose without. Corolla c. 4 mm across. Stamens: diadelphous. Ovary 3-4 mm long, compressed, hairy without; stigma capitate. Pods: 1.2-2.3 x 0.1-0.15 cm, moniliform, 4-7-jointed, reticulate, slightly pubescent with hooked hairs, constricted in ventral suture.

Flowering and Fruiting : October-December

Uses: Medicine in Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Homoeopathy, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha

Cultivation: wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org